BIO

Glen Lowry

A cultural theorist by training, I have published widely on contemporary arts and culture—literature, photography, film, and television. I am specialist in cross-disciplinary collaboration and creative practice-led research. Across critical and creative modalities—scholarly research, poetics, design, visual art, publishing, and public engagement—my work seeks to engage communities and stakeholders. Recent projects focus on the convergence of public art, community engagement, and institutional transform. 

From 2011-2015, I worked with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, as a publishing advisor and editor, travelling across Canada with co-editors broadcaster Shelagh Rogers, Executive Director Mike DeGagné, and others to participate in discussions about Truth and Reconciliation among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities. From 2007 to 2015, with M. Simon Levin and Henry Tsang, I was a research co-lead for the Maraya project, a new media engagement connecting urban waterfronts in Vancouver and Dubai. From 2001 to 2012, I edited West Coast Line, a Simon Fraser University-based literary and cultural journal. Currently, I am Executive Director and Advisor to the Provost, Partnerships, Outreach, and Research at OCAD University, where I works to connect artists, designers, and media makers (faculty, students, staff and alumni) with partnership-driven initiatives.

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My most recent work is personal and reflective, and it includes an ongoing  photo project, “Walking in the Pandemic” is a response to changing urban imaginaries. This body of work is a follow up to Pacific Avenue (2009), a collection of poems that look at image-based memory and geography.